$1,530. Against Harden

20 to 16, with Sun Ce's three-pointer, the Grizzlies' lead expanded to 4 points!

With this lineup, the Grizzlies have a clear advantage in offense.

In terms of coordination, all five players in the Grizzlies lineup can participate in tactical coordination, and Richard Jefferson and Yi Jianlian can pass the ball.

On the Warriors side, most of them are three-person coordination, and at most Thabeet joins the coordination.

The Warriors called a timeout and entered the official timeout time.

Mark Jackson began to make substitutions, letting Harden play point guard, and Jordan Crawford, Iguodala, Harris Barnes, and O'Neal played.

On the Grizzlies side, Sun Ce and Klay Thompson continued to play, and Livingston, Hardaway Jr., and Gasol Jr. played.

Sun Ce continued to play. The game against the Clippers was a transition. Tonight, he really started to rotate based on him, Klay Thompson, and Paul George.

In the first 6 minutes and 37 seconds, Sun Ce scored 9 points, 2 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal, and made two three-pointers. Together with Klay Thompson who scored 3 points and 1 assist, the two of them made a total of 3 three-pointers, one more than Curry made.

After Coach Hollins emphasized the defense of three-pointers with one big and four small players, Sun Ce returned to the court and was surprised to find that Curry had gone down.

The opponent also replaced four outside players!

However, Sun Ce was puzzled. Last year, the Warriors would send out a five-small lineup. Why did they insist on having a big center this season?

In fact, the reason is very simple. Last season, Mark Jackson did not insist on having a big center because there were only two inside players over 210 cm in Thabeet and Ezeli last season. Ezeli's ability was poor. He played for only 10 minutes in a game and was not as strong as Draymond Green.

This season, with O'Neal, of course, O'Neal should be used more, and O'Neal played very well. In the first 12 games, he averaged 23 minutes per game, got 8 points, 6 rebounds and 15 blocks.

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The timeout is over, and the game continues.

Maybe sometimes Mark Jackson's substitutions are more rigid, which will cause problems in many games, but persistence is often effective.

For example, if Pau Gasol, who weighs more than 130 kilograms, is on the court, and Draymond Green is used as the center,

Sun Ce and Livingston will definitely take advantage of the presence of two three-point shooters, Hardaway and Klay Thompson, to let Pau Gasol sit and beat Draymond Green to death.

O'Neal is different. He is a high-quality defensive player with strong low-post defense and averaged 2+ blocks per game for 9 consecutive seasons. Although he is old, his low-post defense is still excellent.

The two teams entered the positional battle offense and defense mode.

With Iguodala, Harden is more responsible for single-player scoring in the positional battle offense, and his defense is also good. Facing Livingston, who is 5 cm taller than him, Harden defended very well, with strong defense and good shooting interference effect.

Sun Ce's personal feeling is that if Harden plays in Houston as he did in the original time and space, his strength will definitely become stronger and stronger, such as three-pointers, step-backs, dribbling to the basket, and fouling.

But the comprehensive skills that he developed in the Thunder because he wanted to fight for playing time are constantly declining.

But in the Warriors, without playing magic ball, the team needs his comprehensiveness and defense. Curry helps him reduce the pressure of scoring, and Iguodala is brought back and Barnes is selected to help him reduce the pressure of defending the opponent's strongest player and reduce the pressure of organizing offense.

Harden's comprehensive offensive skills that he has polished in the Thunder for three years have become more comprehensive in the Warriors, and all aspects are constantly improving!

Due to the lineups of both sides, the second half of the first quarter became a showdown between Sun Ce and Harden!

On Sun Ce's side, he mainly uses his size advantage to find simple scoring opportunities; if there are no simple scoring opportunities, he will play with flowers and play unexpectedly.

On Harden's side, Iguodala directed his teammates to help him create good singles opportunities to singles Klay Thompson. Iguodala directed his teammates' positions and movements to reduce Harden's danger of being defended by Sun Ce, so that Harden could have better passing opportunities when he was double-teamed.

I didn't feel much in the last game, but Sun Ce deeply felt the role of Iguodala in this game.

The data can hardly show the help Iguodala has given to the Warriors. Whether in terms of experience or the ability to lead teammates, Iguodala is incomparable to Curry and Harden at present.

Gasol's connection, Livingston's awareness, Sun Ce's singles, coupled with Klay Thompson and Hardaway, two shooters.

From the lineup, the Grizzlies are better than the Warriors, but Iguodala helped the Warriors hold on to the score!

From the data, Iguodala is really unremarkable, averaging 9+4+4 per game, the same as the Pacers' backup small forward Ivan Turner.

But Iguodala's role cannot be reflected in the data. His restriction on Sun Ce and his help to the offense are greatly improved!

After the first quarter, the Grizzlies led 34-31. During the time when Curry went down to rest, the Grizzlies' lead was reduced by 1 point!

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Entering the intermission, because there was no physical potion available and there was no better three-pointer than him in the star experience card, Sun Ce was replaced according to the arrangement.

In the second half of the first quarter, Sun Ce and Klay Thompson each hit a three-pointer.

Now he, Sun, has made 3 three-pointers and scored 14 points in the first quarter. Klay Thompson scored 6 points, all of which were three-pointers.

At present, the two of them are leading Curry 5-2, and the overall score is also leading. Sun Ce sat on the bench with a little peace of mind, watching the lineup of Livingston, Tony Allen, Paul George, Larry Sanders, and Gasol Jr. go up to grind defense.

4 to 1, this is really pure defense.

This is based on the fact that Curry will definitely play on the Warriors side, and the pure defensive lineup sent out is intended to consume Curry's touch and prevent the Warriors from continuing to play the pass-cut cooperation in the first half of the first quarter.

Although the Warriors "only" scored 16 points in the first half of the first quarter, the cooperation was really good. The Grizzlies' aggressive running and gunning lineup could not play for long, and it was impossible to keep suppressing the Warriors.

After the timeout, Sun Ce looked at the opponent's lineup. As coach Hollins predicted, Curry, David Lee, and Thabeet were on the court, and they were paired with Draymond Green and Bazemore.

Sun Ce really couldn't understand this lineup. Why did Draymond Green, David Lee, and Thabeet play together?

Just to ensure David Lee and Thabeet's playing time?

It is true that ensuring the players' playing time is important for the players, and it is important for the players' data and mentality, but sometimes some decisions should be made.

However, Sun Ce did not have the opportunity to continue to speculate on the other coach's thoughts. After the second quarter of the game started, Sun Ce could not help but spit out "Fuck" one after another!